A new DOJ memo argues that immigration judges can be stripped of civil service protections. That could lay the groundwork for firing them if they don’t rule the “right” way.

Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway.

A Senate committee this week will almost surely push forward the FDA and NIH nominees. Neither one has the public interest at heart.

Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.

If he doesn’t abandon efforts to reclassify and legalize marijuana, his administration will unleash a wave of corporatization and consolidation.

The free world is standing on an all-too-familiar precipice. But we’re not standing with it.

The first time around, the party had a plausible endgame for Trump’s reign. Today, that’s entirely absent.

As congressional Republicans mull slashing federal spending, a key nutrition program is on the chopping block—and everyone on our food supply chains could take a hit.

Many areas of the country are already dangerously below the 95 percent vaccination threshold needed to prevent measles outbreaks. The Trump administration could cause them to sink further.

As a checked-out president sits back and lets Elon Musk shred the civil service, the signs of economic calamity are growing—and Americans of all stripes are getting pissed off.

We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

The president has made it clear that he’ll bend over backward to benefit the criminal and corrupt—as long as they kiss his ring.

Over the course of a single contentious meeting, the president departs the world stage and cedes the century to Russia and China.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t just inflicting pain on poor people abroad or imagined “enemies within.” Their parade of cruelty is coming for MAGA country too.

There are a lot of effective ways to protest what’s happening to the country. Boycotting everything is not one of them.

Lawyer Norm Eisen talks with TNR editor Michael Tomasky about the dozens of anti-Trump lawsuits he’s involved with—and how he’s winning.

The newly anointed HHS secretary is weaponizing legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric care to gut public services, abandon poor and disabled people, and expand the police state.

If Scott Bessent’s deperate attempt to pin the looming downturn on his boss’s predecessor is any guide, then the numbers the White House is seeing must be truly terrible.

A judge kinda-sorta found for the White House against the Associated Press. But Trumpworld is pushing things way too far.